Manage your XEN or KVM virtual machines throughout their life cycle with an enterprise class tool for FREE! If it wasn’t exciting enough ConVirt binaries are available in rpm packages for SLES10 through YUM repository, ready to install…

Ivan Vari shares an excellent document focusing on a design where XEN virtual machines (domU) are centrally managed according to a set policy and highly available. What is written here is the real thing not a demo and has been working in production for over 18 months. They use this technology for hosting many UNIX services including DNS, Web proxy, SMTP, NFS, VPN, CUPS, etc. and traditional NetWare services with OES2.

In this guide I’ll explain how to manage X displays (GUI) on Linux servers, and desktops in the best possible way and remotely. I’m still a CLI guy, and barely use the GUI, but nowadays more and more GUI tools are added to many Linux flavors so it’s unavoidable to use them every now and then. This guide is based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 10 (SLED) and the default display manager Gnome but should be very similar to OpenSUSE or other releases.

This quick tip explains how to find “missing” libraries for building software from source. Let’s say you want to build and application which requires “Xm” headers to be installed. How do you actually know which package to install? Each SuSE media includes a file in the root directory named ARCHIVES.gz with all files/package names. root@geeko:~ …